• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.528-532
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• 1996

The purpose of this study was to analyse copper intake and effect ofZn(30mg ZnSO4/d) supplementation on plasma copper level of Korean adults. Daily Cu intakes were studied in ninety subjects aging 20-20 years. Among them twenty four subjects participated in 6 weeks Zn supplementation study. The men consumed 1.47($\pm$0.64)mg of Cu and the women consumed 0.98($\pm$0.43)mg of Cu daily. the most abundant sources of Cu was meat, fish, egg and soybean group, the second was cereal and grain group and the third was vegetable group. These three groups supplied about 90% of copper in the subjects. The plasma copper level of the subjects was not changed much until two weeks of Zn supplementation. However, after two weeks of Zn supplementation plasma copper level was reduced continuously during the experiment. There was no significant difference in plasma Cu level between control and supplement group of the men, while the supplemented women showed significantly lower plasma Cu level than control group at week 4(p<0.01) and week 6(p<0.05). Although plasma Cu level of the subjects was slightly changed, its concentration in plasma was still in normal range in all groups and no one showed clinical Cu deficiency. Therefore the Zn supplementation of RDA level doesn't seem to cause any adverse effect on Cu status.

• Journal of Korea Foundry Society
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.116-121
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• 2000

Interfacial reaction and mechanical properties between Sn-Zn-X ternary alloys(X : 3wt.%In, 4wt.%Bi) and Cu-substrate were studied. Cu/solder joints were subjected to aging treatments for up to 50days to see interfacial reaction at $100^{\circ}C$ and then were examined changes of microstructure and interfacial compound by optical microscopy, SEM and EDS. Cu/solder joints were aged to 30days and then loaded to failure at cross head speed of 0.3 mm $min^{-1}$ to measure tensile strength. According to the results of the solderability test, additions of In and Bi in the Sn-9wt.%Zn solder improve the wetting characteristics of the alloy and lower the melting temperature. Through the EDS and XRD analysis of Cu/Sn-9wt.%Zn solder joint, it was concluded that the intermetallic compound was the ${\gamma}-Cu_5Zn_8$ phase. Cu-Zn intermetallics at Cu/solder interfaces played an important role in both the microstructure evolution and failure of solder joints. Cu/solder joint strength was decreased by aging treatment, and those phenomenon was closely related to the thickening of intermetallic layer at Cu/solder joints.

• Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.191-196
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• 2019

The phase of Cu,Zn,Al precursors strongly affects the activity of their final catalysts. Herein, the Cu,Zn,Al precursor was prepared by precipitation of $Al^{3+}$ onto primitive, amorphous Cu,Zn precipitate. This precursor turned out to be a phase mixture of zincian malachite and hydrotalcite in which the latter phase was less abundant compared to the co-precipitated precursor. The final catalyst derived from this precursor exhibited a little higher copper surface area and methanol synthesis activity than the co-precipitated counterpart. Therefore, the two precursor phases need to be mixed in an adequate proportion for the preparation of active $Cu/ZnO/Al_2O_3$ catalyst.

• Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.397-402
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• 2007

The present study was initiated to examine the measures of dietary intake of Fe, Cu and Zn. The food duplicate samples were collected in Busan and its neighboring area, from the 69 middle-aged women (healthy non-smoking, mostly house wives), who provided informed consent. The samples were wet ashed by being heated in the presence of mineral acids, and Fe, Cu, Zn in the wet-ashed samples were analyzed by inductively coupled plasma - atomic emission spectrometry(ICP-AES). Dietary intake of Fe, Cu and Zn were 10.4 mg/day in Fe, 1.2 mg/day in Cu, 7.4 mg/day as arithmetic mean. The values for dietary Fe and Zn were lower, and the values for dietary Cu were higher than the recommended daily intake from Korean Nutrition Society. Further studies of Korean foods are needed to clarify the representative values for daily dietary Fe, Cu and Zn intake in the Korean population.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.365-368
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• 2003

Small amounts of additives such as mol % 0.13 NiO and mol % 0.01 $CaCO_3$were added to Cu-Zn-Mg ferrites. Basic composition of the Cu-Zn-Mg ferrites was $Cu_{Cu}$X/$Fe_{0.054}$ /$Zn_{0.486}$$Mg_{0.407}$ $Fe_{1.946}$ $O_4$(group A) and $Cu_{0.263}$$Fe_{0.027}$ $Zn_{0.503}$ $Mg_{0.262}$ $Fe_{1.973}$ $O_4$(group B). Specimens were sintered at different temperatures (1010, 1030, $1050^{\circ}C$) for 2 hours in air followed by an air cooling. Then, effects of various composition and sintering temperatures on the microstructure and the magnetic properties such as inductions, coercive forces, and initial permeabilities of the Cu-Zn-Mg ferrites were investigated. The average grain size increased with the increase of sintering temperature. The magnetic properties obtained from the aforementioned Cu-Zn-Mg ferrite specimens were 1,724 gauss for the maximum induction, 1.0 oersted for the coercive force, and 802 for the initial permeability. These magnetic properties indicated that the specimens could be utilized as the core of IFT (intermediate frequency transformer) and antenna in the amplitude modulation.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.138-143
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• 2002

In this study, ZnS: Cu nano-crystals are synthesized by solution synthesis technique (SST). The structural properties such as crystal structure and particle morphology, and the optical properties such as light absorption/transmittance, energy bandgap, and photoluminescence (PL) excitation/emission are investigated. In an attempt to realize the Cu-doping easiness, the synthesis temperature (~$80^{\circ}C$) is applied to the synthesis bath, and the thiourea is used as sulfur precursor, unlike other general chemical synthesis route. Both undoped ZnS and ZnS : Cu nano-crystals have the cubic crystal structure and have the spherical particle shape. The position of light absorption edge is ~305 nm, indicating the occurrence of quantum size effect. The PL emission intensity and line-width are maximum and minimum, respectively, for Cu-doping concentration 0.03M. In particular, the dependence of PL intensity and line-width on the Cu-doping concentration for ZnS : Cu nano-crystals synthesized by SST is reported for the first time in this study. Experimental results of the absorption edge and the PL excitation show that the main emission peak of ZnS : Cu nano-crystals (~510 nm) in this study is due to the radiative recombination center in the energy bandgap induced by Cu dopant.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.02a
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• pp.609-609
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• 2013

나노선은 대표적인 일차원 나노구조로 높은 부피-표면적 비율과, 조절 가능한 밴드갭 에너지, 뛰어난 광학적/전기적 특성으로 인해 다양한 잠재적 응용처를 가지며, 많이 연구되고 있다. 특히 ZnO 나노선은 대표적인 광촉매로, 높은 감광성과 높은 부피-표면적 비율 등의 특징을 가지지만, 상대적으로 넓은 밴드갭 에너지 때문에 가시광선 영역을 사용하지 못하는 단점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 CuS 나노입자/ZnO 나노선 이종구조를 간단한 두 가지의 방법으로 합성하였다. ZnO 나노선은 간단한 수열합성 방법으로 합성하였고, 그 위에 CuS 나노입자를 successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR) 방법으로 증착하였다. 합성된 나노 구조는 기존의 ZnO 구조와는 달리 가시광 영역에서도 향상된 광촉매 특성을 보였으며, 이는 ZnO와 CuS사이의 interfacial charge transfer (IFCT)에서 기인한 것이다. SEM, TEM, XRD를 통해 CuS/ZnO 이종구조의 형태와 결정구조, 구성성분을 분석할 수 있었고, Acid Orange 7의 광분해 실험을 통해 향상된 광촉매 특성을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.5 no.5
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• pp.548-551
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• 1995

The effect of Cu substitution on the properties of NiZn ferrites sintered at low temperature with composition is investigated. The densification of NiCuZn ferrite in dependent upon Cu content in the composition of (N/sub 0.5-x/Cu/sub x/ Zn/sub 0.5/O)(Fe/sub 2/O/sub 3/)/sub 0.98/. Electrical resistivity is maximum at x=0.2. Dispersion characteristics of complex permeability of (Ni/sub 0.5-x/ Cu/sub x/Zn/sub 0.5/O)(Fe/sub 2/O/sub 3)/sub 0.98/ is observed above x=0.3 and relaxation frequency increases with higher temperature. The magnetic loss of NiCuZn ferrite is occurred above the Cu content x=0.3 at a low frequency.

• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.9 no.9
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• pp.925-932
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• 1996

Using the d.c. 2-probe method, we have examined the temperature dependence of CO gas sensitivity of pure ZnO and ZnO CuO thick films prepared by the acqueous precipitation. At 200ppm CO gas, pure ZnO thick film shows the maximum sensitivity of -6.5 at 300.deg. C. On the other hand, the maximum sensitivity of 1-5 mol% and 10-15 mol% CuO added ZnO thick films are 2.8-2.5 and 1.6, respectively. Therefore, the sensitivity of pure ZnO thick film is about three times larger than those of ZnO-CuO thick films. We suggest that the promotion of maximum sensitivity is caused by low packing and the increase of chemical adsorptions for $O_{2}$ gas.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.1241-1246
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• 2010

Ternary Cu/ZnO/$Al_2O_3$ catalysts were prepared by a co-precipitation method. The precursor structures were monitored during the aging. The first precipitate structure was amorphous georgeite, which transformed into the unknown crystalline structure. The transition crystalline structure was assigned to the crystalline georgeite, which was suggested with elemental analysis, IR and XRD. The final structure of precursors was malachite. The Cu surface area of the resulting Cu/ZnO/$Al_2O_3$ was maximized to be 30.6 $m^2$/g at the aging time of 36 h. The further aging rapidly decreased Cu surface areas of Cu/ZnO/$Al_2O_3$. ZnO characteristic peaks in oxide samples almost disappeared after 24 h aging, indicating that ZnO was dispersed in around bulk CuO. TOF of the prepared catalysts of the Cu surface area ranges from 13.0 to 30.6 $m^2/g_{cat}$ was to be 2.67 ${\pm}$ 0.27 mmol/$m^2$.h in methanol synthesis at the condition of $250^{\circ}C$, 50 atm and 12,000 mL/$g_{cat}$. h irrespective of the XRD and TPR patterns of CuO and ZnO structure in CuO/ZnO/$Al_2O_3$. The pH of the precipitate solution during the aging time can be maintained at 7 by $CO_2$ bubbling into the precipitate solution. Then, the decrease of Cu surface area by a long aging time can be prevented and minimize the aging time to get the highest Cu surface area.